Author: kivimakiartstudio

Concept Design for Home Addition

Friends of ours are thinking of adding an addition onto there home.  I took the opportunity to use it as a design challenge and sketched out this drawing done in ink and water color

Previous Art Work in Hand Blown Glass

I am posting my previous work in glass that I did when I worked to Alex Brand in Corning NY.  All work is of my own design and produced by hand.  I enjoyed my time as a glass artist for those years.  As the economy shifted so must us all, and that when I started…

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Architectural CAD Drawings

Architectural drawing done when working for Dion and Sokal Architects as a CAD draftsman.  This was a manufacturing plant in witch I drafted and laid out all the architectural sheets.  Working for Bob Dion made me want to study architecture.  Architecture school made me want to leave.  The Irony! It wasn’t until I started studying…

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Cast Study of Skull

Our third assignment for Mr. Sondow’s class was to draw and reproduce a cast copy and sketch of the skull.  We were only supposed to draw the skull but to give us more of a frontal view instead of a top down view we had to raise the cast of the table.  The dodecahedron gave us…

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Study after Giulio Romano

We have been given a Master Arts to study during the course of the year at the Beaux-Art Atelier.  The artist that I was given was Giulio Romano, who was a student of Raphael’s  and took over his Atelier after his death.  This is one of my first architectural studies of Romano done in Ink…

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Drawings from the Frick

Sketch book study form the Frick.  Another of our Sunday afternoon walks in NYC with our Professor Djordjevitch Pencil on Paper

Tuscan Order after Vignola

Durring this past year studying at the Beaux-Art Atelier we studied the different characters of the Tuscan Order.  The orders of classical architecture as described by Vitruvius, Vignola, Palladio, Serlio, and Gibbs were studied and drawn to compare the differences and similarities of the sculptural qualities of the Tuscan order. Red Calk on Paper 18″ x 24″

Gate in Prospect Park

This study was done on one of our Sunday afternoon walk with our Professor Michael Djordjevitch.  He had taken us students every sunday to a different part of NYC to study the Beaux-Art Architecture of the City. Sketch Book Study;  Ink on Paper

Cast study in progress

We are finished with the cast of the eye.   At least the class is, we move on to a new feature of drawing and sculpting.  This was a tough first cast to start using a new technique with.  I think the second time around Im going to have a better understanding of how to…

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Study after Giulio Romano

Over the course of the school year each student was given a old master artist to study, copy, and model there work on in there own sketches, and drawings.  The artist I was given was Giulio Romano. Who?  Apparently Giulio Romano was Raphael’s star pupal, painter, and architect.  Great Thanks.  I am way out of…

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In progress cast study; drawing and sculpting

From geometric solids to cast study of the eye.  Not a straight foward geometric shape but none the less geometric in nature. Therefore we are still approaching our subect in the same maner. By not only drawing from the cast but also sculpting a copy out of clay. We are only into our second day…

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9 Hour Bargue

One of the classes I will be taking this year is a drawing class in witch I will be making a duplicate copy of an old master artist.  The purpose of this is to attempt to replicate the movement of the artist hand as if they were the artist themselves.  To understand what the artist…

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